We discuss current approaches to the development of natural-language dialo= we systems,
and claim that they do not sufficiently consider the unique qualities of man-machine …

This paper shows how agents' choice in communicative action can be designed to mitigate
the effect of their resource limits in the context of particular features of a collaborative …

This paper describes some studies on the effect of the system vocabulary on the lexical
choices of the users. There are many theories about human-human dialogues that could be …

Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations.
Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task. In order to …

The article reports an oral corpus-based study of epicene pronominal constructions (ie,
pronouns coreferent with singular antecedents and referring to referents of indeterminate …

This thesis addresses the question of how speakers adapt their language when they interact
with a spoken dialogue system. In human–human dialogue, people continuously adapt to …

Natural language interfaces require dialogue models that allow for robust, habitable and
efficient interaction. This paper presents such a model for dialogue management for natural …

The book is a study of the incentives and constraints which bear upon people's ability to
improve access to and quality of household water through their own cooperative and …

Intelligent dialogue systems must be able to respond properly to a variety of requests
involving knowledge of the dialogue, the task at hand, and the domain. This requires …

We report on a method for utilising corpora collected in natural settings. It is based on
distilling (re-writing) natural dialogues to elicit the type of dialogue that would occur if one …